White team wins Alabama A-Day game 23-17 on TD pass on last play

White team running back Trent Richardson (3) runs past linebacker Tana Patrick in Alabama's spring football game on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. (The Birmingham News / Mark Almond)TUSCALOOSA -- A.J. McCarron threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Gibson after time had expired on a fourth-and-15 play to lead the White team to a 23-17 victory over the Crimson team in Alabama's A-Day game today at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The Crimson team featured the first-team offense; the White team featured the first-team defense.

A crowd of 91,312 was announced. Admission was free and the game was televised on ESPN -- until the broadcast ended after time ran out with the score at 17-all.

Time expired on an incomplete Hail Mary pass on third-and-15, but the White team was allowed to run one more play.

The Crimson team led 10-7 at halftime and extended the lead to 17-7 early in the third quarter on a 5-yard touchdown run by Eddie Lacy. That TD was set up by a 60-yard run by Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner.

The White team came back with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Star Jackson to Demetrius Goode with 10:42 left in the game and a 27-yard field goal by Cade Foster with 3:13 to go.